Esther

[Quico Sallés @QuicoSalles]

El TEDH rebutja aturar el trasllat de les obres de Sixena i no admet la demanda de Cassandra https://t.co/gKVBzLzUWs

[Bauhaus Movement @BauhausMovement]

Walter Gropius, Wassily Kandinsky and J.J.P. Oud during the Bauhaus exhibition in Weimar, 1923. Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA), Montreal.

[John Cleese @JohnCleese]

Eureka!! Hope you all are enjoying the World Cup

[Esther @glesther005]

@louquecal Doncs, mig núvol, avui. Bon dia 😘🦑https://t.co/OeBgS3PVbD

[Joan Burdeus @JoanBurdeus]

Miquel Barceló va passar per Barcelona la setmana passada a dir les coses que diuen els pintors genials, encara sense novetats sobre si serà l'escollit per fer la Façana de la Glòria.

Sobre Miquel Barceló, David Hockney i la glòria, a @nuvol_com

https://t.co/kTJxzfoVrd

[Bauhaus Movement @BauhausMovement]

Inauguration of the new #Bauhaus. Wassily Kandinsky, Nina Kandinsky, Georg Muche, Paul Klee, Walter Gropius, Germany, Dessau. Photo © Walter Obschonka, 1926.

[Esther @glesther005]

@estelsiplanetes Espectacular.

[Esther @glesther005]

@louquecal 🫂✊🏽💫

[Esther @glesther005]

@louquecal 🙌🏽🤫

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

When Michelangelo finished this statue, the story goes that he struck it across the knee with his hammer and shouted: "Why don't you speak?"

Looking at it, you can see why he expected an answer.

The figure is Moses, carved by Michelangelo between 1513 and 1515 for the tomb of Pope Julius II, and it stands today in the church of San Pietro in Vincoli in Rome.

It is one of the most lifelike things ever cut from stone, and Michelangelo himself is said to have considered it his most living creation.

According to the legend, when it was done, the silence of something so alive was more than he could bear. He hit its knee and demanded that it speak. Some say a faint mark on the knee is still there…

Look first at the head, and you will see something strange: two horns rising from his hair. They are not a symbol of evil. They are one of the most famous translation errors in history. When the Hebrew scriptures were rendered into Latin, the word describing Moses coming down from Mount Sinai, karan, was read as "horned." But the same set of letters can also mean "radiant," "emitting rays of light." Moses' face was not growing horns. It was shining. By Michelangelo's time the mistranslation was centuries old and fixed in tradition, so he carved the horns, as nearly every artist before him had.

Then look at the face. The head is turned to one side, the brows drawn down, the eyes fixed on something beyond the room. Many scholars believe Michelangelo caught Moses in a single specific instant: the moment he comes down from the mountain holding the commandments and sees his people worshipping a golden idol, the breath before his fury erupts. The whole body is tensed on the edge of motion, and yet it will never move.

Michelangelo believed every block of marble held a living figure inside it, waiting to be set free. With Moses, he came closer than anyone ever had, and when he laid down his tools, only one thing was still beyond him: he had made a man who could do everything but speak...

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[Esther @glesther005]

Una de les últimes intervencions en la basílica amb una mica de qualitat artística, que pot crear diàleg amb l'obra de Gaudí.

[btv notícies @btvnoticies]

L’Anyell de Déu llueix dins la creu de Jesús de la Sagrada Família, envoltat de rajos daurats
https://t.co/qBSPSfhtOV

[Mercè Rodoreda @RodoredaMerce]

Em vaig haver de fer de suro per poder tirar endavant, perquè si en comptes de ser de suro amb el cor de neu, hagués estat, com abans, de carn que quan et pessigues et fa mal, no hauria pogut passar per un pont tan alt i tan estret i tan llarg.

La plaça del Diamant

[Catsèries @_catseries]

Tal dia com avui del 1986, fa 40 anys, s'estrenava la mítica 'Hotel Fawlty' amb el @DoblatgeCatala a TV3.

[Núvol @nuvol_com]

'Les Vides', publicada per primera vegada el 1550 i ampliada el 1568, va fundar la historiografia artística moderna i va contribuir a definir el concepte de Renaixement.

https://t.co/6Og0RyDP3E

[Cris @gallifantes]

La ciutat està al límit del col·lapse pel turisme i ells continuen gastant diners públics per promocionar-la.
Algú està guanyant molts diners sacrificant el benestar dels barcelonins. Si no, no s'entén.

[Taps @ladecada_80]

Bonjour
🗓️ #TalDíaComoHoy en 1982, Alaska y Los Pegamoides eran NÚMERO 1 de @Los40_Es
con el himno indiscutible de la Movida: ¡BAILANDO! 📷📷#Ochentas#Música

[Esther @glesther005]

El nou monument literari que ja es pot llegir en català. https://t.co/Cmv3neZ8fD via @diariARA

[Esther @glesther005]

@louquecal O a Cadaqués 😉 Bon dia i bona ora 🌊

[Albert Castellón @albertcastellon]

Escriptors que volen ser Lorca i fan l’orco